Tag: powershell
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Remove uninstallable Windows 10 apps with one PowerShell command
PowerShell’s pipeline is powerful (and alliterative)
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How to find AWS S3 bucket size and number of objects via PowerShell
Determine the size of and number of objects in an Amazon S3 bucket
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Create an elastic load balancer and update Route 53 DNS in PowerShell
Reduce AWS EC2 charges by not running ELBs for dev/test environments
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How to copy ADFS certificate thumbprints cleanly
How to avoid a 10-year-old gotcha using PowerShell
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What is dot sourcing in PowerShell?
Scope in an interactive shell is different
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10 years and blogging strong
And there’s plenty more to come
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Graphically deregister AWS AMIs and associated S3 snapshots
PowerShell’s Out-GridView cmdlet rocks
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Understanding AWS RDS recovery
RDS backup and restore are (mostly) automatic
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How to enable SQL Server 2008 R2 authentication mode with PowerShell
Some of my friends who follow this blog have told me that they have no idea what I’ve been posting about lately. That’s because my recent posts have been mostly about helping people who are Googling specific questions. If you are one of my pals who who’ve stuck with me here, thank you. I appreciate it.…
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How to use PowerShell in Chef to install Windows Server features
Chef — the wildly popular configuration management system, whose motto is “infrastructure as code” — treats Windows as a second-class client, despite all protestations from from its creator, Opscode, to the contrary. Still, you can do some cool stuff with Windows and Chef in PowerShell, as long as you can stand the Ruby “domain specific language” that Opscode…
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Time to pop some stuff off the stack
It’s been a swirl lately. That means limited time to post here. It pains me when I don’t post here regularly. Mind you, I am always thinking about things to say. I’d rather just get it out there in short form than forget stuff. Herewith, a “short stack”. (How’s that for mixing pancake and computer…
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You say PowerShell braces, I say PowerShell assignments
I am very gratified with the increasing traffic this blog is receiving from a series of posts that describe how to automate tasks in EC2 in AWS with PowerShell. You can see them all here. As with any creative activity involving language, style is both personal and important. I’ve been getting the impression as I read others’…